A
mosaic depicting Moses acknowledging the presence of GOD, yet, not
worshiping the burning bush.
Today,
reply is to divine declarations of displeasure with the performance
of appointed offering, sacrifices and worship by Israel. Many still
adhere to the counsel from King Solomon accounted as wisdom where he
advises gravity, sobriety and sorrow to the people of GOD as more
profitable than merriment. More correctly, Christian believers are
to understand eternal purpose and the sacred substance within their
own attitudes, behavior and conduct are the actual focus for
relationship with divinity, rather than emotional expressions and
social concerns. It is written: Nehemiah 8: 8-12, King James
Version (KJV): 8 So they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them
to understand the reading. 9 And Nehemiah, which is
the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that
taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is
holy unto the LORD
your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they
heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way,
eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for
whom nothing is prepared: for this
day is
holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD
is your strength. 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying,
Hold your peace, for the day is
holy; neither be ye grieved. 12 And all the people went their way to
eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth,
because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion &
Spirituality using the ID “Hoosier Daddy?” (a.k.a. “The Real
Joker”; Level 1 with 88 points) posted the following:
If
GOD hates your feast day why are you celebrating them? What are you
really celebrating? Do you even know?
Amos
5:21-23
21
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your
solemn assemblies.
22
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will
not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your
fat beasts.
23
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear
the melody of thy viols.
Jeremiah
1010 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel:2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and
be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed
at them.3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a
tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with
the axe.4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
nails and with hammers, that it move not.5 They are upright as the
palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they
cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither
also is it in them to do good.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my
mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
(Psalms 119: 108, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Sovereignty Of GOD (11/24/2019); Sin Depicted
Using Flesh (11/22/2019); Why Do They Sing? (11/14/2019); Worshiping
A Man-made Object (11/04/2019); Why Paul Observed Tradition
(07/10/2018); Idolatry -- Exalting
Human Devices? (09/21/2017); The Meaning of Christmas? (12/22/2016)
“The
Real Joker”, the covenant relationship established by GOD using
Moses and the tribes of Jacob to fulfill the divine promise to
Abraham was put forth as a “perpetual covenant.” Even so, the
holy writings report there were many occasions when divine
displeasure and the wrath of GOD against sin were expressed as
rejection of the lifestyles and worship observances within both Judah
and the Northern Kingdom (called Israel, Samaria, and the 10 tribes).
The North rejected rule by the house of David, and Temple worship at
Jerusalem; and actually embraced worshiping the Golden Calf from
Egypt. Correction appeared in many forms that even included conquest
and occupation of the Promised Land by their enemies as well as
expulsion and assimilation from their homeland through captivity and
exile. The continuation, recovery, and reconciliation with divinity
as the peculiar people of GOD are to be seen as mercy and salvation
provided to those who have been found guilty in divine judgment.
More than this, fresh expressions of divine prerogative, eternal
purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD were granted as the further
revelation of divine commitment. Divinity appeared among the living
on the earth using flesh and blood (we say, Incarnation) as Jesus
Christ. The issues of false worship, idolatry, and sin were not
eliminated or erased so much as they were overshadowed by the gifts
and grace from GOD: (1) Jesus as a lamb of sacrifice for atonement
and propitiation; (2) opportunities for sinners to be born-again
through the resurrection of Jesus from the dead; (3) believers
displaying a fresh endowment of spirit substance imparted from the
makeup of GOD; and (4) deliverance from the second death.
Christian believers are to resemble, reflect, and reveal the image of
GOD, and the character of Jesus while living on the earth. All are
to become mature/ripe for harvest by the Lord at his appearing (the
Second Coming). Rather than insistence upon the formal ceremonies,
memorials, and “letter of the law,” emphasis is now upon the
righteousness of divinity and how the spirit within the law exists
within the believer. Consider again the following that uses language
from the Bible, and the selection from the music ministry of Wintley
Phipps:
(1.)
John 7: 24, King James Version (KJV): 24
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
(2.)
Malachi 1: 6-11, KJV: 6 A son honoureth his father, and a
servant his master: if then I be a father, where is
mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear?
saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that
despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? 7 Ye
offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we
polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD
is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice,
is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it
not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with
thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of
hosts. 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious
unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons?
saith the LORD of hosts. 10 Who is there
even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither
do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure
in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I
accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun
even unto the going down of the same my name shall be
great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be
offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be
great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
(3.)
Isaiah 54: 7-13, KJV: 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee;
but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid
my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I
have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I
have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth;
so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy
on thee. 11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay
thy foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make thy windows of
agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant
stones. 13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD;
and great shall be the peace of thy children.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For
example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5n4ZdyHJOg.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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